Scripture, with the Fathers beside it
The whole Bible in quiet type, and where a Father speaks to a verse, his word stands one touch away.
THREE TRANSLATIONS
The King James
The cadence the English-speaking Church has prayed for four centuries, the verses you already half-know by heart.
The Septuagint
The Greek Old Testament the apostles quoted and the Church still keeps, in the Brenton translation, with the books the Fathers read.
Plain modern English
For the passage you want to be sure you have understood, the World English Bible, clear and unadorned.
Your ribbon, notes, and highlights stay available on your device. Supported reading data can sync through your private iCloud account.
WHICH BIBLE DO ORTHODOX CHRISTIANS USE? ›The Fathers, one touch away
Read a verse, and where the Church has heard it deeply, a mark waits beside it. Touch it, and a Father speaks, not a note a model wrote, but the words of Chrysostom, Basil, the Cappadocians, in their classic editions, each with its source shown.
COMMENTARY WITH ITS SOURCE SHOWN
“See how He heals the soul before the body: the palsy was but the fruit, the sins were the root.”
Threads through Scripture
The whole Bible, read as the Church reads it, every promise and shadow of the Old opening into Christ. The ladder Jacob saw, the bush that burned unconsumed, the ark, the throne of David: each a thread drawn to the One they foretold, and gathered at every feast.
“Beginning at Moses and all the prophets, He expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning Himself.”
People, Angels & Symbols
97 DOSSIERS
The faces and signs within Holy Scripture, from Adam to the nine orders of angels, each gathered into a single page.
The Canon
68 BOOKS
How the Church received her Bible, the books, the timeline, and why the Bibles differ, told plainly.
On iPhone, iPad and Mac
Orthros is in public beta on iPhone, iPad and Mac. Scripture is free to read, and the day's readings wait in Today and in the calendar, beside the feast, the saint and the fast.
Questions about Scripture in Orthros
Is Orthros an Orthodox Bible app?
Orthros is an Orthodox prayer app with the whole Bible inside it, free to read, on iPhone, iPad and Mac in public beta. It carries four translations, the Orthros edition, Brenton, the King James and the World English Bible, among them the Septuagint the Church keeps; the Fathers beside the verse, where Orthros has a reviewed source; and the day's readings, gathered in Today and the calendar.
Which Bible translations does Orthros include?
Three: the King James; the Septuagint, the Greek Old Testament the apostles quoted, in the Brenton translation; and the World English Bible, in plain modern English.
Does Orthros show what the Church Fathers said about a verse?
Yes, where Orthros has a reviewed source for it. Where a Father speaks to a verse, a mark waits beside it: the words of Chrysostom, Basil and the other Cappadocians, in their classic editions, each with its source shown.
Read here. Hear it proclaimed there.
Scripture is given its fullest voice in the Liturgy, sung from the ambo, the reading you carry all week, proclaimed to the whole Church on Sunday.
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